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On January 21th RAI 1, the Italian
Public Television, broadcasted a report about the Silk Road by the
journalist Claudio Pagliara, during which the TV crew visited Xi’an, famous for
its terracotta army, Kashgar, for millennia crossroads of different cultures,
and the new symbolic megalopolis of China: Shenzhen, the reign of hi-tech;
Chongqing, the new frontier towards the West and Shanghai, the economic,
financial and scientific capital.

During
the visit toChongqing, the TV crew also visited the offices of Galileo Galilei
Italian Institute (GGII) and gave an in terview to the executive director Anna
Facchinetti, to underline the projects and the relevance of the structure in
the context of the Silk Road.

Galileo
Galilei is in fact in Chongqing since December 2007 and it’s located in the main
campus of Chongqing University. The Institute is the result of a cooperation
agreement between Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and Chongqing University
(CQU),
officially signed in December 2004 during the visit of the then Italian
President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to China.